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tricks to trucks

It was right about in here the other night, as we drove around so I could photograph stuff from the car window, that a woman in a white truck seemed to find our actions suspicious enough to warrant her keeping an eye on what we were doing. She followed us all the way through the neighborhood and for a few miles after we left. I guess she wanted to make sure we were REALLY leaving. Or (and this is less likely) she was wanting to copy my Artistic Technique.

Either way: we made it home.

But aside from all that, the sign that says “tricks to trucks” makes me laugh. I want it to be the title of some sort of redemption tale of a sex worker who found her true calling as a truck mechanic.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.20.2025

the hangers on

I’d seen this building before, from the adjacent interstate, but had never gone past the “I should probably go over and look at that” part of my thought process.

Finally, the other night, I did get over there. And I have plans to return: it really was more interesting than I thought it was going to be.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.20.2025

floral/abstract

I got lost inside of this, in the colors and the shapes and the shadows. It made me feel breathless and disoriented. It was my first experience of the sort (with my own art), and therefore I believe this to be the first meaningful abstract I have ever created.

It feels like an accomplishment. And maybe it was.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.19.2025

floral/stems

flower stems, in a vase, and made abstract

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.19.2025

floral/skirt

I love it when people take the time to send flowers – they brighten up the place quite a bit and it is always nice to know you’ve been thought of.

And then, when all that’s stuff done, they are a ton of fun to photograph as they pass through various states between vibrant and crunchy and dead.

Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.19.2025